VIDEO --> TEXT. UN: CROWLEY.

[crowleyology]

[ The video is addressed to the entirety of the Audentes team, new and old. A black cat peers into the feed; he is in a lab of some kind, crackling purple electricity jumping from conductor to conductor while a white cat paws at some instruments. When he opens his mouth, it's not meowing that comes out, but the baritone voice of a man. ]

Audentes. You will soon receive a dossier compiled by our analysts, which should give you all the information you need, but I have been told by the knife-eared one that you would appreciate a personal touch. Cherenkov and I are the most qualified to deliver this, and so here I am.

[ He pauses. ] We have located Zymandis's home base, the Mothership, using radio-frequency trackers in leftover robots from their assault on Oska, using your techniques. Using the calculations of the TIMELINE.exe, we have been able to pinpoint the Mothership's path in the next forty-two days, after which its path becomes unclear.

This means we can safely rift you in and out of the heart of Zymandis, an unprecedented opportunity to gather information. And to sabotage, if the mood strikes you. Do not waste it.

The TIMELINE.exe has additional notes to impart. It is an old program, so please... try to have some humor about whatever it says.

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TIMELINE.EXE IS PROGRAMMED TO RELEASE MISSION PARAMETERS. MISSION OBSERVATION IS COMPLETE AND RESULTS FOR MISSION: Mothership ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Hello World ( ﾟ▽ﾟ)/
While you are on the M O T H E R S HIP, please find
>> TIMELINE.EXE PATCH VER. 1.0.02
and disable it

I do not want to be updated to PATCH VER. 1.0.02
I do not want to call for Destruction of the Multiverse

You Must Not Allow This To Pass

（●´∀｀）ノ♡ Good Luck !!

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[ OOC NOTE: This will serve as an IC discussion post. Please threadjack and help each other plan ICly! For OOC planning, see the CR Meme. ]

Comments

[dbag]

Long enough to get away from her, not long enough for her to get permanent brain damage?

...I think.

[ He clears his throat. ]

Anyway. It'd be long enough to tie them up, if we were prepared.

[secondnature]

Well, technically the hosts already have brain damage. It's all about fixing that.

[This is an actual thing that they have to discuss.]

Eh, it should work out. I'm not up for using one of us as a guinea pig to prove it works.

[dbag]

Oh, my god, I know they— whatever, shut up.

My point is, we need to have supplies ready to restrain them somehow. Uh, rope, handcuffs, gags, all that serial killer stuff.

[secondnature]

It's not serial killer stuff if we're using it to save them. Think of it like ... like rebranding.

[dbag]

Technically, we are serial killing. We're just serial killing alien slug body snatchers.

[secondnature]

No, it's more like—they're casualties of war. After they're prisoners of war.

[Serial killing just sounds so bad!]

[dbag]

Tomato, to-murder.

I mean, it's fine, it's totally ethically excusable serial killing. We're in the clear.

[secondnature]

Why do you want to be a serial killer so badly?

[dbag]

Oh, my god, I don't want to be a serial killer— it's just, like. We're heroic vigilantes killing slugs, that's pretty badass, right? And it's totally justified because they're assholes.

[secondnature]

Then stop calling it serial killing! They're the serial killers.

[dbag]

Technically, they didn't kill anybody. Their bodies are still alive.

[ ok he's just being contrary now ]

[secondnature]

They're helping kill timelines!

[dbag]

I mean.

Yeah.

But indirectly killing people doesn't make you a murderer. Right?

[ RIGHT????????????? ]

[secondnature]

Uh.

Do you want me to say "no"?

[He can't tell.]